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NewsDanny McCance
13 Mar 2018 04:24pm

Brexit to cost Whitehall extra £400m in staff

The increased cost of civil servants may push the government Brexit bill up to £2bn by 2019

The cost of hiring new staff to accommodate the change across six departments is estimated at £400m in 2018/2019 alone, although could be “significantly higher”, according to think tank the Institute for Government (IfG).

In what the IfG calls a “loosening of the purse string” by chancellor Philip Hammond, the government has supposedly reversed reduced staff levels seen in recent years.

The IfG noted that its £400m prediction did not include the cost of recruiting or training these new staff.